Elsie M. Burrows

Elsie May Burrows (1913–1986) was an English botanist who made significant contributions to British postwar phycology.[1] Her primary area of research was macroalgal ecology, focusing particularly on Fucus, a genus of brown algae, and Chlorophyta, a division of the green algae.

Borrows graduated with a B.Sc. from the University College in Leicester. She married in 1936 and assumed a post at Liverpool University, where she spent the remainder of her career. She subsequently received her Ph.D. in 1948.

A founder member of the British Phycological Society, she served as the organization's vice president from 1957 to 1958.

In 1951, she began collecting data fmfor her monograph, Seaweeds of the British Isles. The manuscript was completed shortly before her death and published posthumously in 1991. A number of specimens collected and characterized by her for the Seaweed Mapping Scheme remain in the herbarium at the Ulster Museum.

Publications

  • Burrows, E.M. 1947. J. Ecol. 35: 186.
  • Burrows, E.M. 1958. Sublittoral algal population in Port Erin Bay, Isle of Man. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 37: 187–703.
  • Burrows, E.M. 1959. Growth form and environment in Enteromorpha. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 56: 204–206.
  • Burrows, E.M. 1964. A preliminary list of the marine algae of the coast of Dorset. Br. Phycol. Bull. 2: 364–368.
  • Burrows, E.M. 1991. Seaweeds of the British Isles. Volume 2. Chlorophyta. Natural History Museum Publications. ISBN 0-565-00981-8
  • Burrows, E.M. and Lodge, S.M. 1949. Notes on the inter-relationships of Patella, Balanus and Fucus, on a semi-exposed coast. Rep. Mar. Biol. Sta. Pt. Erin. 62: 30–34.
  • Burrows, E.M. and Lodge, S. 1951. Autecology and the species problem in Fucus. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 30: 161–176.
  • Burrows, E.M., Conway, E., Lodge, S.M. and Powell, H.T. 1954. The raising of intertidal algal zones on Fair Isle. J. Ecol. 42: 283.
  • Burrows, E.M., Dixon, P.S., Blackler, H., Drew-Baker, K.M., Powell, H.T., and Powell, H.G. 1957. List of marine algae collected in the district around Dale Fort, Pembrokeshire, September 19–26, 1956. Brit Phy. Bull. 5: 21–31.

References

  1. ↑ Norton, T.A. (1987). Elsie M. Burrows (1913–1986). Br. Phycol. J. 22:317–219.
  2. ↑ IPNI.  Burrows.


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